Fashion Friday

Let's dedicate today to accessories. ...the kind you never take off. I got a new tat! I've been thinking about it for a long time, and when I got my new job, I started drawing it out. A conveniently timed Groupon to the tattoo place where my guy works (Jesse at Adorn) was just the push I needed! I went in with my sketch about a month ago and made my appointment. Jesse has done my foot and lower back and I absolutely love working with him. It was his idea to do the wrap around on my waist and I love that so much that I happily trusted him to turn my little sketch into perfection. When I got there last night, we changed and tweaked it a little and in that process I was able to alter the fish face to be an Arowana... It's not a perfect Aro, but the fish Jesse picked was awesome and it just took a few changes to make me see it as my beloved Zu. This was a bonus. I had tried to draw him into my version and I couldn't get it to work right, so I was happy to settle for a fish Jesse picked and put it out of my mind. So yesterday when it was so close and all I had to do was make a couple changes, I was ecstatic. It's not how I would have drawn it at all, but I love how it turned out. It also means I have two of my fishes on my back, which might make me a little weird. But without getting all spiritual on your asses, I'll just say that I think it's cool. I will definitely add some more pics once it heals. It peeks over my shoulder too, which is pretty badass.

How hot am I going to be on the bike in my tube top this summer?

Wordless Wednesday

Reading.

I grew up doing lots of it. Loved it. But, as an adult I did it less and in the last couple years I've done very little of it (aside from the Stephanie Plum books Evie let me borrow when I was traveling for work. Wait, what? in my google search for a link, I saw they are making a movie! It could be a good movie, but Heigl is lame.) Anyway, through a Facebook post, I volunteered myself to read something two of my co-workers loved. I did not love it. (but would be happy to talk about it with anyone who did...) Because I borrowed it from someone, I wanted to make sure to read it and get it back quickly (Sorry Evester, I know I've had your books since like, 1977, but this is a different type of friend. You know, one who I've never hung out with naked in the slot machine room and one where the word "poop" never comes up. The kind where you feel like you don't want to have something of theirs for very long.)

BUT (and I have a point) I kind of liked forcing myself to read a book. I'm not going to jump into a bookclub or anything (sorry Jill). but I'm going to try to start reading again. My goal is to always have a book that I'm working on. If someone says "what are you reading?" I'll have an answer. It also means that I'm going to request that all you reader friends email books that you really like (unless you loved Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in which case warn me before you send your titles)

To inspire myself, I'm going to grab the best book that's ever been written, ever: Imajica by Clive Barker. I know that I will never be hesitant to read it, even though I've done so about 20 times. It will change my life while I travel the pages, as every Clive Barker book does, and I will look forward to the escape into his world and losing myself in his words. I have to give complete credit of this discovery to John, who introduced me to the book and it's author. We had known each other for a very short time when he brought me his book to borrow. He walked in with this thick, worn hardcover and said "I think you'll like this." We barely knew each other. I was in love in the first chapter (with the book, and with John. But that's another story :)) It's a long book and I found myself rationing pages at the end, trying to prolong the experience as long as I could. As soon as I finished, I started down the author path and immediately jumped from Clive book to Clive book until I'd hit all that I'd found.

I never did give John his book back :)

Fashion Friday

I love me some animal print! and I love to make it not match. Sometimes I pair an animal print with polks dots, and I love it with red or hot pink. On this day, I chose a leopard belt, shoes, and scarf, and with a black shirt (or red one!) it would have been super snazzy. Sharp, my grandma would've said. But I have been wanting to wear this tiger shirt for a while. It's an old one of my mom's (go figure) and is super soft and comfy. It also has a cool strappy back. Someday I think I'll do a post for an office to evening conversion and this shirt would be a cool piece of that: wear it correctly in the office, maybe with a blazer, and then turn it around, ditch the blazer and put on some awesome earrings for a night out! Since it doesn't have a full back, and it's not quite time to bust out summer wear in the office, I wore a sheer, short sleeved top over it. But by the time I got home and to the grocery store and then back home again, it had long since found it's way to my bag so it is not pictured :)

Man Song

I try to make sure we have a wide variety of song types in Tease and Tone. This one is by a band John likes and since he meets me after dance every night, this was one I knew he'd appreciate while he waited. A good variety helps ensure that my girlies don't get bored and get to try different styles and it's always fun to be different characters in our heads as we picture whatever outfit we'd rock it we were performing. Erin said that she's bust this dance out while playing pool and drinking beers wearing jeans and a white t-shirt. What would your rock and roll outfit be?

Wordless Wednesday

Hey, nice... wait, what?

Now I am all about DIY fashion and being creative and turning one thing into another but I have to draw the line here..... just, no.